This week’s photo was fun to work on. The little girl was so cute, and the photo didn’t need too much work. The eyes were sharp and the expression was cute. The composition needed a little bit of work, so I cropped it to make the girl the focus of the photo and to take out the distracting wall.

I opened the photo in Adobe Camera Raw. I lightened it considerably and applied some fill light. I adjusted the color and luminance noise and then opened it in PhotoShop CS3.

In Photoshop I adjusted the skin tones. I found a new way to adjust skin by called Color Correcting by the Numbers. I think it does a really good job for skin. You can see a tutorial for it here: http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=532. By the way, that site has some awesome Photoshop tutorials and lots of them are free.

Then I just boosted the contrast a bit and burned the edges slightly.

Here is what I came up with:

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